Businesses of all sizes and industries have struggled to implement a hybrid IT environment that can meet their most critical needs, without disrupting business. The challenge is especially acute for midsized firms whose limited IT resources are facing pressure to adopt a never-ending torrent of technology innovations. In an effort to create a hybrid IT environment, many businesses end up with a multiple siloed infrastructure deployment options that consume increasing amounts of management time, effort and budget, while never quite meeting business needs.

Banking is rapidly being transformed by one, distinct theme: digital technology.
For those leading the charge, there is no longer a distinction between a business strategy and a technology strategy. There is just strategy driven by technology and the client needs it will evolve to continually meet. In this new world, upgrading existing operations and making legacy systems fit new challenges is not going to be enough. To succeed, banks need to become future-ready, connected enterprises, backed by a new type of technology and operating model that is nimble enough to adapt to new challenges and growth opportunities.

Have you ever wished for an army of clones to do all your thankless tasks and chores? Well, that fantasy is becoming a reality—at least on the Internet. And while they may not be actual clones, bots have begun doing lots of digital dirty work.
Managing your relationship with bots—good and bad—has become an inherent part of doing business in a connected world. With more than half of online traffic initiated by autonomous programs, it’s clear that bots are a driving force of technological change, and they’re here to stay.¹
As bot technology, machine learning, and AI continue to evolve, so will the threats they pose. And while some bots are good, many are malicious—and the cybercriminals behind them are targeting your apps. Preparing your organization to deal with the impact of bots on your business is essential to developing a sustainable strategy that will enable you to grow as you adapt to the new bot-enabled world.

Discover How Cloud-based Billing Delivers Transformation
Enterprise leaders and companies of all sizes are leveraging digital transformation through disruptive technologies like the Internet of Things, AI, business intelligence and big data.
This eBook demonstrates 5 strategies for leading the charge for change within your business. Discover how to quickly leverage digital transformation in your technology stack and monetize it quickly with cloud-based billing.
Download this eBook to explore how the right solution can help you:
• Launch product innovations quickly
• Monetize IoT and increase revenue
• Automate billing to improve customer retention
• Leverage the cloud to reduce costs
Adapting today can mean the difference between success and obsolescence. With the right billing solution your business can thrive in these challenging times.
Discover how today!

With the new TIBCO Spotfire® A(X) Experience, we are revolutionizing analytics and business intelligence.
This new platform accelerates the personal and enterprise analytics experience so you can get from data to insights in the fastest possible way. With the fusion of technology enablers like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language search, the Spotfire® X platform redefines what’s possible for analytics and business intelligence, simplifying for everyone how data and insights are generated, consumed, and acted on.
Download this whitepaper to learn more, then check out the new Spotfire analytics. It’s unlike anything you have ever seen. Simple, yet powerful, it changes everything.

Digital disruption, economic instability, political upheavals and skills shortages have all at some point in the past 24 months been blamed for business failure, or at the very least, lost profitability and earnings.
It’s perhaps not a huge surprise that a Gartner CEO survey on business priorities revealed that digital business is a top priority for next year. Survey respondents were asked whether they have a management initiative or transformation program to make their business more digital. The majority (62 percent) said they did. Of those organisations, 54 percent said that their digital business objective is transformational while 46 percent said the objective of the initiative is optimisation.*
So, for businesses it’s a case of learning to evolve and be agile, to use technology to help compete more efficiently and not fall victim to inertia. As businesses become increasingly dependent on the insights from data analytics and face-up to competition fuelled by the 24/7 society of in

Pursuing agility to truly impact business transformation requires embracing date center modernization as a core competency. Crucial to this is having the most up-to-date IT instructure to support the scale and complexity of a changing technology landscape. Companies must embrace this imperative by adopting software-defined data center principles, embracing modernization, and automating their IT management processes. Those that do will propel business innovation and deliver superior customer experiences with fast, secure, and reliable business technology. Download this whitepaper from Dell and Intel® to learn more.

With trends such as big data, artificial intelligence and IoT dominating
today’s business technology headlines, the buzz around enterprise
mobility (now considered known and familiar) may have lessened, but
its importance has not. Consider its key role in today’s top tech trends,
and then also consider this. According to an Oxford Economics survey
of 500 senior IT executives, CEOs, and other senior managers, 80%
say workers cannot do their jobs effectively without a mobile
device. The same survey shows:
82% say mobile devices are critical to employee productivity
82% say mobile devices are critical to agility and the speed of decision making
76% say mobile devices are critical to customer service and satisfaction
75% say mobile devices are critical to innovation and collaboration
70% say mobile devices are critical to employee satisfaction
and 70% say mobile devices are critical to revenue growth.
The known and familiar now demands a fresh look and focus from
enterprise organizations a

The Constellation AstroChartTM supplies a visual guide of the trends impacting Data to Decisions. After
assessing boardroom priorities, organizations should employ AstroCharts to inform
portfolio management.
This report contains two AstroCharts: one identifying Business Trends and one identifying Technology
Trends. The AstroCharts’ vertical axes plot “Organizational Adoption” rates from Mainstream to
Early Adopter to Bleeding Edge. Horizontal axes plot “Business Impact,” the impact of the trend on an
organization’s business model, from Incremental to Transformational to Exponential. The Constellation
AstroChart moves beyond both the hype and constraints of the standard 2 x 2 grid to identify the
dynamics impacting the entire market.
This report applies Constellation’s AstroChart to the Constellation’s business theme of Data to
Decisions. This research domain examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations.
Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multidisciplin

War is being waged for talent, and the spoils will go to those
organizations that arm their recruits with the technology that makes
them work more effectively and creatively. Technology is now the
primary way that organizations engage with their workforce. According
to a Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey of 677
executives, the overwhelming majority—86%—believe that technology
has a greater impact on employee engagement today than it did three
years ago, and a similar number say that technology will continue to be
a major factor in engaging the workforce in the years ahead.

Adopting a PSA solution can help position small to mid-sized consulting firms for future growth by modernizing and futureproofing their underlying business processes in every area of operations and management.
Read this white paper by IDG to learn why having purpose-built technology can drive engagement, improve resource and business visibility, and put your growing firm on a path to success.

Ready to communicate IT cost and value in terms your business unit partners understand?
The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business.
Use this poster as a resource to:
• Establish better alignment between IT, Finance, and other business units by using common language around IT costs
• Confidently manage the business of IT with the backing of peer-derived best practices
• Understand 10 essential metrics you should track to communicate the business value of IT

Aligning your workforce plan to greater business objectives doesn’t have to be a struggle—especially when you get the basics right. This whitepaper outlines the 10 fundamental steps for creating an effective strategic workforce plan and how technology can help put it into action.

In today's hyperconnected and digitized world, cybersecurity has become an important strategic imperative owing to the sophistication of cybercrime. Digital businesses require complex and distributed interactions among people, applications and data - on premise, off-premise, on mobile devices and in the cloud. The result is an increase in the attack surfaces that are hard to protect and defend. As the perimeter continues to diminish, visibility into the environment gets tougher. Operational Technology (OT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) massively expand the scope of security strategy and operations. When a massively distributed fleet of autonomous devices that can make decisions is combined, directly affecting the physical state of people and things, there is a considerable risk to manage. This issue is not limited to the chief information security officer (CISO) but needs the involvement and sponsorship of the leadership and the board.

"In today’s digital landscape, balancing user experience with customer safety has never been more important -- or more difficult. By surveying 500 employees responsible for fighting fraud, Sift found that 77% prioritize delivering a frictionless experience, but nearly as many say fraud prevention blocks this goal.
The answer isn’t additional fraud prevention. Businesses must adopt a Digital Trust & Safety approach, strategically aligning risk and revenue decisions supported by sophisticated processes and technology. How can you optimize your business strategies for the challenges and opportunities of the digital world?
Read This Guide To Find Out
How to move beyond reactive fraud-fighting strategies and deliver excellent customer experiences without compromising safety
The 4 qualities of a Digital Trust & Safety organization
A step-by-step guide to help you evolve to Digital Trust & Safety
Why the time for Digital Trust & Safety is now"

"In today’s digital landscape, balancing user experience with customer safety has never been more important -- or more difficult. By surveying 500 employees responsible for fighting fraud, Sift found that 77% prioritize delivering a frictionless experience, but nearly as many say fraud prevention blocks this goal.
The answer isn’t additional fraud prevention. Businesses must adopt a Digital Trust & Safety approach, strategically aligning risk and revenue decisions supported by sophisticated processes and technology. How can you optimize your business strategies for the challenges and opportunities of the digital world?
Read This Guide To Find Out
How to move beyond reactive fraud-fighting strategies and deliver excellent customer experiences without compromising safety
The 4 qualities of a Digital Trust & Safety organization
A step-by-step guide to help you evolve to Digital Trust & Safety
Why the time for Digital Trust & Safety is now
"

In today’s competitive landscape, businesses need to make decisions quickly in order to respond to rapidly changing customer preferences and nimble competitors; whether it’s a new business strategy, a new business process, or a new market offering, businesses are competing on speed and agility.
The overwhelming majority of today’s business and IT leaders understand digital transformation is necessary to maintain leverage amid constantly changing customer preferences. They also have a clear picture of their desired end state—exemplified by leaders like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. However, only a small minority of have a clear understanding of the path they need to lead the market.
In this paper you’ll learn:
How to build digital transformation into the root of your company with a practical, natural, and tested blueprint.
Best practices from over 1,600 enterprises to transform your strategy, organization, and technology from the ground up.
Actionable next steps to start your journ

A connected, agile IT landscape serves as the foundation for a successful business. SAP integration requires the right technology, a strategic approach to connect SAP and third-party systems, and a means of enabling your organization to achieve success. Learn how MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform and MuleSoft Catalyst enable you to unlock SAP across the domains of people, process, and technology to drive innovation and change the clock speed of your business.
Download this whitepaper to learn about:
The top 3 challenges to SAP integration.
How Anypoint Platform connects SAP to any app, data, or device.
Abstracting configuration complexity with an API-led approach.
How MuleSoft Catalyst empowers your teams to scale innovation.

Limited visibility has tethered CIOs' success in both IT and business. However, using federated CMDB technology, CIOs can view the complete IT infrastructure and the entire lifecycle of a business service.

Because business success is tightly fused with technology, IT costs are rising, and this trend is expected to continue. As a result, businesses are demanding that IT be more than a static resource. IT is expected to deliver business results with a measurable contribution to the organization's bottom line.

Improved business productivity often requires more efficient IT and more efficient IT cannot be achieved without a better understanding of the way business services are run and delivered. Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) have emerged as a central component for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and business service management (BSM).

In our latest Point of View, "The Dirtiest Word In Business," Airfoil has assembled a collective set of best practices to help technology marketers meet the communications challenges of a new digital decade.